Transport infrastructure and facilities
Roads and bridges
New Chroy Changva Bridge enters final stage
The two sides of the Second Chroy Changva Bridge were connected Wednesday in a ceremony presided over by Transport Minister Tram Iv Tek. He said the Chinese-funded bridge would be completed by September. “The bridge was projected to cost $27.5 million to be spent on construction ...
Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/new-chroy-changva-bridge-enters-final-stage-56294/
Gov’t unlikely to meet target to reduce road deaths
Without more efforts to punish traffic violators, the government is all but certain to miss its 2020 goal of cutting traffic deaths by 20 percent and drunk driving deaths by 50 percent, road safety experts said at a forum Tuesday. There were 1,910 deaths due to ...
Simon Henderson and Khuon Narim
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/govt-unlikely-to-meet-target-to-reduce-road-deaths-56156/
City Hall to shepherd public bus operation
City Hall has taken over the recently launched public bus route in Phnom Penh pending a review of the Chinese-owned firm that is contracted to run the fledgling service, a company official said yesterday. Lim Andre, Global (Cambodia) Trade Development’s manager in Phnom Penh, said yesterday ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/city-hall-shepherd-public-bus-operation
Hun Sen urges safe driving during New Year
Prime Minister Hun Sen on Monday urged Cambodians to keep safe as they celebrate Khmer New Year this weekend and instructed law enforcement officers to be vigilant during a period renowned for causing an annual spike in traffic accidents. Speaking at a graduation ceremony on Koh ...
Khy Sovuthy and Hay Pisey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-sen-urges-safe-driving-during-new-year-56040/
Assembly OKs law to patch up roadways
A draft law meant to improve the maintenance and construction of Cambodia’s dilapidating roads was passed yesterday in a one-sided session of the National Assembly that saw ruling party lawmakers lambast Public Works and Transport Minister Tram Iv Tek for his allegedly poor stewardship. ... ...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rcaf-captain-guilty-outlawed-birds%E2%80%99-battle
Railway audit finds poor maintenance of tracks
Toll Royal Railway, the private operator of Cambodia’s train service, has no system in place to regularly inspect the state of its tracks, and lacks qualified inspectors to check either tracks or bridges, according to a recent safety audit of the firm’s Phnom Penh operations. The ...
Zsombor Peter and Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/railway-audit-finds-poor-maintenance-of-tracks-55756/
Ruling party debates roadways law without opposition
Ruling party members continued to meet at the National Assembly on Wednesday, discussing a draft law on roadways despite a boycott by the opposition. The opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party has refused to participate in the new government, following 2013 elections it says were marred by ...
Suy Heimkhemra
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/ruling-party-debates-roadways-law-without-opposition/1884674.html
4th Cambodia-China Friendship Bridge almost completed
The work of fourth Cambodia-China Friendship Bridge has almost been completed after a 16-month construction, a contractor said Thursday. He Luesa, head of Shanghai Construction (Group) General Company' s construction team, said the construction of a 855 meters by 13.5 meters Takhmao Bridge across Tonle Bassac ...
ECNS News Staff
http://www.ecns.cn/2014/04-03/108053.shtml
Road accidents claim 576 lives in Cambodia in first 3 months
The number of road fatalities in Cambodia rose to 576 in the first three months of the year, up from three percent over the same period last year. ... Preap Chan Vibol, director of Transport Department at the Public Work and Transportation Ministry, attributed the high ...
Bernama News Staff
http://www.bernama.com.my/bernama/v7/wn/newsworld.php?id=1027429
Firm plans more bus lines
Chinese firm Global (Cambodia) Trade Development will launch several more city bus lines in Phnom Penh over the next 10 months, dramatically expanding what has so far been a successful experiment to introduce mass transit to the capital, the company and state media said yesterday. Lin ...
Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/firm-plans-more-bus-lines
City’s third overpass shoots for ahead-of-schedule completion
Phnom Penh’s third overpass, or flyover, bridge is now close to completion, some eight months ahead of schedule, and its planners say it will not only greatly improve traffic congestion in the southwest of the city but will also lead to price increases for property ...
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/real-estate/city%E2%80%99s-third-overpass-shoots-ahead-schedule-completion
Hun Sen Says More Die on Roads Than in War
Road traffic accidents are killing more Cambodians per year than those who died annually as a result of war during their country’s more than two decades of armed conflict, Prime Minister Hun Sen said Monday. Speaking in Battambang province’s Bavel district at the inauguration of the ...
Khy Sovuthy and Simon Henderson
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-sen-says-more-die-on-roads-than-in-war-53853/
New Thai crossing is in works on border
The Cambodian government is conducting a feasibility study investigating the need for a Thai border crossing at Steng Bort Village in Banteay Meanchey province, four kilometres from Poipet. ... ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/new-thai-crossing-works-border
Cambodia inaugurates China-funded road in northwestern province
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Monday inaugurated the China-funded road No. 57B in northwestern Battambang province, saying that the road will contribute to developing economy and reducing poverty. The inauguration ceremony, held in the province's Bovel district, was attended by Chinese Ambassador to Cambodia Bu ...
Global Times News Staff
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/847335.shtml#.Ux-25MrsQf1
City bus operation awarded on basis of ‘verbal’ contract
The Chinese-owned company that began operating Phnom Penh’s new public bus service Wednesday secured its five-year deal on the basis of a verbal agreement and has not yet signed a formal contract with City Hall, the company’s CEO said. Lim Andre, the CEO of Global (Cambodia) ...
Simon Henderson and Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/city-bus-operation-awarded-on-basis-of-verbal-contract-53627/
Chinese firm takes over bus service, no bid needed
The Chinese-owned Global (Cambodia) Trade Development company takes over today as Phnom Penh’s new municipal bus operator, although City Hall said Tuesday that the company did not have to go through a bidding process to get the contract. The creation of a permanent public bus system ...
Simon Henderson and Sek Odom
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/chinese-firm-takes-over-bus-service-no-bid-needed-53513/
Thailand shuts 6 checkpoints in Banteay Meanchey
Six border checkpoints in Banteay Meanchey province were on Saturday closed unilaterally and without warning by Thailand, local officials and border police said. Lieutenant Colonel So Channry, chief of the 911 border battalion in O’Chrov district, said that Thai authorities had closed the checkpoints, one of ...
Ben Sokhean
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/thailand-shuts-6-checkpoints-in-banteay-meanchey-53537/
Plan aims to cut road deaths
Every day, five people die in traffic accidents in Cambodia – a number the government is hoping to reduce with a new policy aimed at cutting traffic accidents by 50 per cent in 2020. The National Policy on Road Safety, passed by the Council of Ministers ...
Chhay Channyda and Lieng Sarith
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/plan-aims-cut-road-deaths
Buses Attract 20,000 Passengers in Two Weeks
About 20,000 passengers have traveled on Phnom Penh’s limited city bus service since a month-long public transport experiment began two weeks ago, which bodes well for a citywide expansion of the service once the trial ends on March 4, City Hall spokesman Long Dimanche said ...
Sek Odom and Simon Henderson
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/buses-attract-20000-passengers-in-two-weeks-52465/
Policing the Police: New Unit Assigned to Traffic Cops
Phnom Penh’s traffic police officers, whose reputation for bribe taking is renowned, will soon be monitored by a new mobile police unit to ensure they uphold the law, the Ministry of Interior said. The Special Team Monitoring Traffic Law Enforcement will ensure that traffic police are ...
Khuon Narim and Joshua Wilwohl
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/policing-the-police-new-unit-assigned-to-traffic-cops-51859/
Test Drive Begins for New City Bus Service
Ten buses set off Wednesday morning along Monivong Boulevard in Phnom Penh on a month-long test-run to determine if the public is ready to jettison their motorbikes and luxury cars and hop on board mass transport. This is the second attempt by the Japanese International Cooperation ...
Hul Reaksmey and Simon Henderson
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/test-drive-begins-for-new-city-bus-service-51538/
Long-Awaited Phnom Penh Bus Service Begins One-Month Trial
A fleet of 10 municipal buses was set to roll out early this morning, commencing a one-month public bus service trial along a single route on Monivong Boulevard. If successful, the bus route will mark the first step in establishing a long-overdue public transit system to ...
Simon Henderson and Khuon Narim
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/long-awaited-phnom-penh-bus-service-begins-one-month-trial-51446/
National Rail Project on Hold ‘Indefinitely’
Work on a $143 million donor project to renovate the country’s creaking railway system, which is already over budget and years behind schedule, is now indefinitely postponed due to a lack of funds, with more than 300 km of rail still to be laid, a ...
Phorn Bopha
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/national-rail-project-on-hold-indefinitely-51323/
Life as Living Nightmare Along National Route 6a
Two years after Prime Minister Hun Sen broke ground on a Chinese-funded project to widen National Road 6a in order to expand its capacity as a major trade and tourism thoroughfare, life for the tens of thousands of families living along the 50-km stretch of ...
Hul Reaksmey and Simon Henderson
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/life-as-living-nightmare-along-national-route-6a-51156/